List Of Writers

AARON, JANE

Email: jaaron@glam.ac.uk

Jane Aaron gained her PhD from Oxford University and is now a Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan. She teaches Welsh writing in English, English Romanticism and literary research methodology. She is Editor of the Honno Classics series of reprints of Welsh Women’s Writing in English. She has also edited an anthology of Welsh Women’s short stories, A View Across the Valley: Short Stories from Women in Wales 1850–1950 (Honno, 1999).

More recently, Jane has published two English language books with the University of Wales Press. The first is a co-edited collection of essays entitled Postcolonial Wales. The second is a self–authored on Welsh women’s writing entitled Nineteenth-century Women’s Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. Jane won the 2009 Roland Mathias Prize for this work of literary history and criticism.  

Selected Publications:
A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (Clarendon Press, 1991)
Pur Fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llen y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (University of Wales Press, 1998)
Nineteenth-century Women’s Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (Gender Studies in Wales) (University of Wales Press, 2007)

Contributed to:
Out of the Margins: Women’s Studies in the Nineties (co-editor) (Falmer Press, 1991)
Our Sisters’ Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 1994)
A View Across the Valley: Short Stories from Women in Wales 1850-1950 (editor) (Honno, 1999)
Postcolonial Wales (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2005)
The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women’s Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage (co-editor) (Honno, 2007)
Gendering Border Studies (co-editor) (University of Wales Press, 2010)




A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (Clarendon Press, 1991)

Jane Aaron writes critically about the lives and writings of the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb. In 1796, in a sudden attack of frenzy the needlewoman Mary Lamb killed her mother. In an effort to save Mary from incarceration, her brother Charles pledged responsibility for her care, and the pair then spent the following thirty years living and writing together. Jane Aaron employs feminist and psychoanalytic literary theory to argue that the Lambs’ ideology drew from their background as the children of servants, their adult experiences as semi-skilled workers, and the role that madness and matricide played in both their lives. Aaron argues that their writings were subsequently unique in comparison to the Romanticism prevalent at the time.

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